Sobkow Agata, Zaleskiewicz Tomasz, Petrova Dafina, Garcia-Retamero Rocio, Traczyk Jakub
Faculty of Psychology in Wrocław, Center for Research on Improving Decision Making (CRIDM), SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wrocław, Poland.
Faculty of Psychology in Wrocław, Center for Research in Economic Behavior, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wrocław, Poland.
Front Psychol. 2020 Nov 19;11:582720. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.582720. eCollection 2020.
The ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 has already had serious worldwide health, socio-economic, political, and educational consequences. In the present study, we investigated what factors can motivate young adults to comply with the recommended preventive measures against coronavirus infection. Even though young people are less likely to suffer severe medical consequences from the virus, they can still transmit it to more vulnerable individuals. Surprisingly, we found no significant effects of previously successful experimental manipulations (e.g., enhancing self-efficacy, and visual aids) that aimed to improve risk understanding and impact COVID-19 related behavioral intentions. Instead, intentions toward preventive behaviors were predicted by self-reported worry, perceived controllability of the pandemic, and risk perception. Interestingly, worry about health, and worry about restricting personal freedom predicted behavioral intentions in diverging directions. In particular, participants who were worried about health, were more willing to obey strict hygiene and social distancing restrictions. In contrast, participants who were worried about personal restrictions, were less ready to adopt these preventive actions.
持续的新冠疫情已经在全球范围内造成了严重的健康、社会经济、政治和教育后果。在本研究中，我们调查了哪些因素能够促使年轻人遵守针对冠状病毒感染的推荐预防措施。尽管年轻人感染该病毒后出现严重医疗后果的可能性较小，但他们仍可能将病毒传播给更易感染的人群。令人惊讶的是，我们发现先前成功的实验性操作（如增强自我效能感和使用视觉辅助工具）对改善风险认知和影响与新冠疫情相关的行为意图并无显著效果。相反，自我报告的担忧、对疫情的可控感以及风险认知能够预测预防行为的意图。有趣的是，对健康的担忧和对限制个人自由的担忧在预测行为意图时呈现出不同的方向。具体而言，担心健康的参与者更愿意遵守严格的卫生和社交距离限制。相比之下，担心个人受限的参与者则不太愿意采取这些预防措施。
